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"Extreme justice is often injustice."
Jean Racine
(12/22/1639
04/21/1699)
French writer
"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."
Charlotte Brontë
(04/21/1816
03/31/1855)
English writer
(sister of Anne and
Emily Brontë)
"There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister."
Josh Billings
(04/21/1818
10/14/1885)
US writer
"There are four varieties in society; the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest."
Hippolyte Taine
(04/21/1828
03/05/1893)
French historian
"And surely all God's people, however serious and savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes, all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them."
John Muir
(04/21/1838
12/24/1914)
Scottish naturalist
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution."
Rollo May
(04/21/1909
10/22/1994)
US psychologist
"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."
Mark Twain
(11/30/1835
04/21/1910)
US writer
"The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors."
Sir John Mortimer
(04/21/1923
01/16/2009)
English barrister, writer
("Rumpole of the Bailey")
"When we grow old, there can only be one regretnot to have given enough of ourselves."
Eleonora Duse
(10/03/1858
04/21/1924)
Italian actor
"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night."
Marie Corelli
(05/01/1855
04/21/1924)
English writer
"Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings."
Robert Brustein
(04/21/1927
)
US educator, critic
"For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature."
Robert Bridges
(10/23/1844
04/21/1930)
English writer
"Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
John Maynard Keynes
(06/05/1883
04/21/1946)
English mathematician, economist
"Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beer cans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist."
Iggy Pop
(04/21/1947
)
US singer
"One swallow does not make a summer,
but one skein of geese,
cleaving the murk of March thaw,
is the Spring."
Aldo Leopold
(01/11/1887
04/21/1948)
US conservationist
("A Sand County Almanac")
"The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle."
Bob Varsha
(04/21/1951
)
US sports commentator
, on Formula One racers
"In my next life, I'd like to come back five foot, two inches, with the best ass and tits you've ever seen."
Andie MacDowell
(04/21/1958
)
US actor
"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand."
Sir Edward Appleton
(09/06/1892
04/21/1965)
English physicist
"I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings." *
Edith Starrett Green
(01/17/1910
04/21/1987)
US Rep (OR)
"Once you've had chemotherapy, there's no such thing as a bad-hair day."
Elizabeth Tilberis
(09/07/1947
04/21/1999)
US editor (Harper's Bazaar)
"Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was."
Nina Simone
(02/21/1933
04/21/2003)
US singer
"Like books and black lives, albums still matter."
Prince
(06/07/1958
04/21/2016)
US singer/songwriter
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